The Three quarks of Baryons is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 4.611 billion Baryonians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 69.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Baryonsian economy, worth 861 trillion entanglements a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 186,738 entanglements, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, bike rage is all the rage, thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baryons's national animal is the Schrödinger's cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Baryons is ranked 13,627^th in the world and 19^th in eta for Highest Average Incomes, with 186,738.52 Standard Monetary Units.